The first big fire of the 2025 fire season has popped up in central Oregon.Fire officials say the Butte Creek Fire made a ...

prompting closure of a state highway and nearby Cottonwood Canyon State Park, but both reopened Wednesday as crews stopped the blaze and had it 40% contained. Central Oregon Fire Management ...

Upon park entry, you get a breathtaking view of a canyon filled with a turquoise-blue reservoir connecting to the Crooked, Deschutes and Metolius rivers, jagged rocky cliffs, colorful bluffs and ...

Central Oregon Irrigation District will begin fire fuels reduction work on a 150-acre property in southwest Bend. The heavily vegetated site, located in the steep Deschutes River Canyon ...

Central Oregon wildfires bring evacuations following ... Level 3 evacuation orders were issued for the Mac Canyon Campground with multiple level 2 warnings issued as well. Wasco County Fairgrounds ...

The governor invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act. A wind-driven wildfire threatening homes and causing evacuations in Central Oregon has grown to 3,889 acres, officials said Thursday.

SISTERS, Ore. — The air is cool, the high desert is nearly completely silent, and the Milky Way stretches like glitter across the sky overhead. From the jagged silhouette of Smith Rock to the ...

“Having that central location is going to be huge,” Miller said. Construction is set to start this fall. Heart of Oregon is trying to raise $2.6 million to complete the build by 2026. Rather ...